Reminder

To view information about next Monday’s conference, click below:

http://www.ceomta.com/spring-district-conference-and-annual-membership-meeting

We’d love to see you there!

____________________________________________________

Here’s a list of winners from last week’s Summer Study Scholarship Auditions.  Thanks go to Meredith Needham and Karen Hittepole, co-chairs, and their volunteers for a successful event!

Scholarship Winners List 2011

Congratulations to our scholarship recipients!!

_____________________________________________________

Other upcoming events:

May 1       Solo & Ensemble and Honors Recitals.  Registration due April 21st

May 1      Out & About.  Registration due April 24th

May 2    Spring Board Meeting & New Member Luncheon

______________________________________________

Here are two other non-OhioMTA events that involve some of our members!

Click below for poster:

AN EVENING OF SONG

 

more information about this concert:

Allan Roth is a Suzuki piano teacher living in Bexley and a member and former officer of CEOMTA. Allan also sings bass in The Sherwoods of Cornell, a men’s a cappella singing group from Cornell University comprised of Cornell alumni from the classes of 1958 to 1974. This group, containing many of the original founding members, will continue over 50 years of delighting audiences when they present An Evening of Song-The best in traditional and contemporary college a cappella in Columbus at and for the benefit of the Jewish Community Center on Saturday, April 16, 2011, in the Roth-Resler Auditorium at 7:30 PM. Appearing with the Sherwoods will be Philomel, the vocal chamber ensemble from the Capital University Conservatory of Music. Philomel, which translated means Nightingale, lives up to its namesake. They sing a little bit of everything, specializing in the broad range of repertoire that distinguishes vocal music at Capital. Their performances include music from the Renaissance period to contemporary jazz and popular music styles. 

The Sherwood repertoire includes beautiful ballads, rousing spirituals, original close-harmony arrangements, show tunes, pop covers, and spirited Cornell songs well seasoned with humor. The Sherwoods were founded at Cornell in 1956 as a triple quartet. They performed extensively on campus and in the east, and traveled the world to perform on USO and numerous other tours.  Starting in 1983, alumni from that group, which disbanded in 1974, have been performing at the annual Cornell reunions and also in the Bahamas and all over the country, from Palm Springs, San Luis Obispo and Cambria, California to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Vero Beach, Florida; Columbus, Ohio; and Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, to name just a few of  the group’s performance venues. The best selections from their seven LP records have been remastered and collected on two CDs. 

Tickets are $10 ($5 for students, seniors over 60, and JCC members) at the door or by calling The Jewish Center at 614-559-6276 or 614-231-2731. The Jewish Center address is 1125 College Avenue, Columbus, OH 43209.

_______________________________________________________

Another concert announcement:

There will be two piano recitals coming up at Capital University. 

1. Power and Poetry – A Tribute to Franz Liszt (Piano Recital from Dr. Wang Tianshu’s Studio), Sunday, April 10, 2011, at 7:30 pm at Huntington Recital Hall (Admission: $10, fundraising for scholarship, “buy one and get one free”)

2. Dr. Gulimina Mahamuti Faculty Solo Piano Recital, Sunday, May 1, 2011, at 3:00 pm at Huntington Recital Hall (Admission is free)

 

Filed under: Competitions, Concert Announcements, Conferences and Workshops, Email tree announcements, General Information, Membership, Student Events | Comments Off

Spring Conference Fast Approaching

The annual Central East District Spring Conference will be held at Otterbein University on Monday, April 11, from 9:00 am until 12:30 p.m.  This year’s conference is being co-sponsored by the Otterbein Department of Music and will feature a keynote address by Dr. Robert Duke of the University of Texas at Austin.  Dr. Duke is well known for his research on music and its effect on the human brain, including the way in which musical experiences are implanted in memory.  He is an engaging and entertaining speaker and has presented several times at MTNA national conferences.

District members will be joined by Otterbein music students and faculty for the keynote address.   There will also be a brief Annual Membership Meeting for the Central East District of OhioMTA.

 Here is a brief bio of Robert Duke:

 Robert Duke is the Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Professor in Music and Human Learning, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Elizabeth Shatto Massey Distinguished Fellow in Teacher Education, and Director of the Center for Music Learning . He is the founder of the National Forum on Research in Motor Learning and Music, a research collaborative devoted to the study of motor skill development and procedural memory consolidation. A former studio musician and public school music teacher, he has worked closely with children at-risk, both in the public schools and through the juvenile court system, and he directs an active research program in motor skill learning and procedural memory at UT. Dr. Duke has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Research in Music Education, the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Psychomusicology, and other publications, and he has directed national research efforts under the sponsorship of such organizations as the National Piano Foundation and the International Suzuki Institute. He lectures frequently on the topics of human learning, systematic observation and evaluation, and behavior management, presenting workshops and teaching demonstrations throughout North America. He is the author of Scribe 4 behavioral analysis software, and his most recent books are Intelligent Music Teaching: Essays on the Core Principles of Effective Instruction and The Habits of Musicianship: A Radical Approach to Beginning Band, which he co-authored with Jim Byo of Louisiana State University. The Habits of Musicianship, released in the spring of 2007, is distributed online cost-free through the Center for Music Learning.

 Registration for the conference will take place at 9:00 a.m. with the keynote address beginning at 9:30.  Visitors to the Otterbein campus will need to display a parking pass to park in University visitor or student parking lots.  Here is a PDF of the parking pass and campus map that you may download and print from your home computer.  Please click below:

TEMPORARY VISITOR PARKING PERMIT4-11

There is also on-street parking in most neighborhoods surrounding Otterbein, and City of Westerville parking lots can be found within two or three blocks of campus off State Street.  Keep in mind that classes will be in session at the University so parking could be tricky.  Please allow ample time to park and get to the Battelle Fine Arts Center where the conference will take place.  It might also be a good idea to carpool.

 Directions to Campus

 Please note that the Main Street bridge over Alum Creek is currently closed and will remain closed until August 2011.

 Battelle Fine Arts Center/Riley Auditorium 170 W. Park Street, Westerville, Ohio 43081

 From the North:

 Follow interstate 71 south to Gemini Place. Exit I-71 and travel east on Gemini Place to Orion Place. Turn right on Orion Place, following it south to Polaris Parkway.  Turn left on Polaris Parkway and follow it east to Africa Road.  Turn right on Africa Road.  Africa Road becomes West Street as it approaches the Otterbein campus. Consult the campus map for parking.

 From the East, West or South:

 Follow interstate 270 toward Westerville and exit to the north on Route 3, which is State Street. Follow State Street north into Uptown Westerville and turn left on College Avenue.  Consult the campus map for parking. 

 Please plan to attend this exciting event!  

 For more information you may contact Tim Huffman, District Conference Chair, by email at tim88@columbus.rr.com, or by phone at 614-268-0220.

Filed under: Conferences and Workshops, Email tree announcements, General Information | Comments Off

The following announcement is a non-OhioMTA sponsored event:

Guest Piano Masterclass & Solo Recital at Capital University

Dr. Sylvia Eckes, a Professor of Piano at Ohio University and a Juilliard graduate, will perform a guest solo piano recital, featuring music by Grieg, Schumann, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Radzynski, at Huntington Recital Hall, Capital University at 8pm on Monday, March 14, 2011.  Admission is free.  On the same day, Dr. Eckes will give a master class at Capital University’s Mees Hall at 10 am.  You are all cordially invited to attend these events.

Filed under: Concert Announcements, Email tree announcements | Comments Off